What is "Graphics" in a Computer?
Computer graphics (or digital graphics) is a term used to refer to anything graphical related to the computer. Including:
- Images: photos, drawings, illustrations, scans, diagrams, etc.
- Graphical user interfaces (GUIs).
- Video: films, movies, animations, etc.
- Scalable graphics: vector images.
- 3D models.
- Any and all sorts of data visualizations.
- Image generation: fractals, generative AI, etc.
- Image and video editing.
Anything graphical done by the computer must be displayed on the screen as an image. We call the act of creating this image rendering. While the computer is generating ANY of the above, we ALWAYS call it rendering. Rendering a vector image, rendering a 3D model in a video-game, rendering buttons in an GUI, rendering a video or image by applying filters to it, rendering fractals, etc. It's always rendering.
Graphics computing generally benefits from a GPU (graphics processing unit). The better the GPU, the faster it's going to be.